All the headlines from our Law Enforcement Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 19 2021 // Texas police will serve search warrants on Tesla Inc. on Tuesday, April 20, to secure data from a vehicle that crashed on the weekend, killing two people, a senior officer told Reuters.Mark Herman, Harris County Constable...
Apr 15 2021 // A Black man who was arrested when facial recognition technology mistakenly identified him as a suspected shoplifter has sued Detroit police, seeking compensation for the humiliating incident and restrictions on how the...
Apr 9 2021 // Los Angeles will pay nearly $1.6 million to settle three lawsuits involving alleged wrongdoing by the city’s police department, a newspaper reported.The City Council voted 12-1 this week to approve the payouts, which...
Apr 8 2021 // Two Rhode Island lawmakers introduced legislation that would ban police from using chokeholds and require body-worn cameras for officers in every department statewide, among other things.The bill proposed by Sen. Jonathon...
Apr 5 2021 // An industrial accident claimed the life of a worker in western Pennsylvania, authorities said.Allegheny County police said emergency personnel were called shortly after 10:30 a.m. Friday to Alpha Aeromatics in O’Hara...
Mar 30 2021 // A construction worker was killed when a trench collapsed on him while he was working in a residential development in the Hudson Valley community of Woodbury, New York, police said. The 43-year-old worker was digging in a...
Mar 23 2021 // A Northern California city has agreed to pay $3.25 million to settle a lawsuit by the daughters of an unarmed Black man killed by police in 2016, the family’s attorneys said.The federal wrongful death lawsuit they...
Mar 19 2021 // For the second time in a week, the U.S. government’s road safety agency is sending a team to investigate a Tesla crash in Michigan.This time, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is sending a special...
Mar 16 2021 // The city of Topeka, Kansas, has settled a lawsuit over a 2016 crash involving a police cruiser that left two people injured, according to a city official. The city has agreed to pay $335,000 to settle the case, Topeka City...
Mar 11 2021 // Nashville officials are seeking a $2.25 million settlement with the family of a Black man who was fatally shot by a white Nashville police officer from behind during a 2018 foot chase, Mayor John Cooper’s...
Mar 5 2021 // Racial bias is “deeply entrenched” within a North Carolina police department where officers feel comfortable making blatantly racist comments, according to findings of a study released last month.The report on...
Mar 2 2021 // An officer who made headlines for excessive use of force allegations and a whistleblower lawsuit resigned from the Springfield Police Department at the end of 2020.Ryan Stone and City Manager Nancy Newton signed a...
Feb 18 2021 // Police have arrested nearly a dozen people who police say are believed to have been connected to multiple pharmacy burglaries in the Atlanta area.DeKalb County police arrested 11 people after a tracking device in a pill...
Feb 17 2021 // After a $5 million proposed settlement fell through, officials in a Louisiana parish are now offering $4.5 million to settle the civil lawsuit brought by the family of Alton Sterling, a Black man who was killed in 2016 by...
Feb 16 2021 // At least 12 people were killed in a fire at a firecracker factory in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu last Friday, police said.Raja Narayanan, a regional police official, said an investigation was under way into...
Feb 10 2021 // The mother of a dead Virginia police informant is alleging in a pair of lawsuits that authorities are responsible for her son’s fatal overdose on opiates that he was coerced to purchase while undercover.Donna Watson,...
Feb 9 2021 // A bill that would strip police officers of immunity from civil rights lawsuits in state court is being rewritten to cap potential damage awards at $2 million, in a concession to critics who warned of dire financial...
Feb 9 2021 // A fire that started in a snowmobile spread to a 111-year-old covered bridge, collapsing the structure into the Missisquoi River in the town of Troy, police said.The fire was reported around 11 a.m. Saturday after a group...
Feb 1 2021 // A new Colorado law allowing individual police officers to be sued will soon get a big test.Four Black girls who were mistakenly detained by Colorado police at gunpoint over a suspected stolen car filed a civil lawsuit...
Feb 1 2021 // The Louisville Metro Police Department needs more diversity among its leadership and must work to improve trust with the community, especially among Black residents, a consulting firm said in a sweeping report of the...